Speeches by McDonagh.

“But you and I know that if everybody is responsible, nobody is responsible.”

“The Complaints Commissioner recently upheld a complaint against the FCA about the way that it handled the failure of Safe Hands, the funeral plan company. Specifically, the commissioner says that the FCA did not act on a tip-off about Safe Hands in 2021. I appreciate that your response is that you get lots of tip-offs …”

“So the complaint in 2021 was not the first time you had heard about them?”

“One piece of anonymous information, and lots of concerns about the people involved and previous complaints. In the FCA’s response to the complaints commissioner, you have disagreed with her findings and are not taking any further action. What is the point of having an independent complaints commissioner if regulators c…”

“But the commissioner is then toothless, is she not?”

“I just have a personal concern about the breadth of your work, the expanding area of your work, and the involvement of quite vulnerable people with not very much money. In something you said, you referred to them as investors. This group of people did not think they were investing in anything. They thought they were ge…”

“Mr Rathi, you have obviously read the memo and you have got God on growth, but could that mean that, actually, the FCA are involved in a bit of virtue signalling? I understand that you recently scrapped the requirement to have a consumer duty board champion on every board. It costs nothing, but it does concentrate the …”

“You mustn’t get much sleep.”

“Madam Deputy Speaker, may I, through you, wish all Members of the House a very happy St Patrick’s day? I rise to speak on new clause 14. What it proposes is not brain surgery, and it is not new or exciting, but it is an essential part of how we approach the enormous problem of children living in temporary accommodation…”

“Through you, Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to apologise to the young black man on the Northern line tube from Colliers Wood this morning for having to spend his journey looking at me sobbing my heart out. It must have been a very odd experience. I wanted to say to him, “I am not just sad; I am angry.” I am angry at the …”

“I have been to see the MHRA numerous times and have asked about repurposed drugs. Many pharmaceutical companies are worried about repurposing drugs; the fear is that if glioblastoma research were to affect the main cause for having the drug, that might make the drug less successful. We have beseeched the MHRA to treat …”

“Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there is a whole range of new modern immunotherapy drugs that could be used on these cancers? They already exist, they are used to treat other people, but they are simply not tried. The cost of those trials is not overwhelming and we can do them, and the NHS repurposing project should…”

“The NHS has a drug repurposing office. To date, it has repurposed one drug, and that was for breast cancer. Does my hon. Friend think that is good enough?”

“Like the hon. Member, I was born and brought up along the banks of the River Wandle. Today, it is a much more prestigious river than it was all those years ago. In fact, there is a connection with the Chamber today, because the leather on these seats came from Connolly’s leather factory, which was a tannery on the Wand…”

“No. We would just be grateful for the time and the opportunity to put pressure on organisations that, to date, have been pretty impervious to our efforts.”

“I am here with my colleague Charlie Maynard from the Liberal Democrats; we share a personal and a political devotion to this particular subject. Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of under-40s in this country. It is little known, but they are also the biggest killer of children. Out of 29 comparable countries,…”

“Rachel, just encourage your constituents to come and live in Mitcham. They would be very welcome.”

“Rachel, just encourage your constituents to come and live in Mitcham. They would be very welcome.”

“I will call Graham Leadbitter to move the motion. Unusually, two further Members will make a contribution in this half-hour debate. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to sum up at the end.”

“I remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called to speak in the debate.”